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Show THE CITIZEN their own pet projects with immunity. The remedy is not in pulpit declining in popularity, as science is revealing a balance in the as the Australians animal kingdom, which if destroyed, the natural prey of birds and or platform address, or even in finding have attempted to do, but in letting this situation of the waste of pub- animals listed that do not minister directly to mens welfare, became lic money through indifference reach such a point that in the end, for destructive pests that cost the agriculturist dearly. All the 24 birds and beasts are known to scientists as performing. their own selfish protection, the citizens will again have to take an some valuable fuction contravening mans right to kill, as even the interest in what the men elected to governmental offices are doing. English sparrow and the crow are more than earning their living in ' POLITICAL PRINCIPLE destroying aphides and cutworms. . non-vote- rs ... What, asks a paragrapher in one of our exchanges, has become of the old fashioned politician who seemed to care something for political principle? The old fashioned politician who put principle above personality is not extinct. His number is still legion, but he is temporarily in a corner, so to speak. And the country has suffered from the fact that he has been compelled to take to his corner. The time was, not so many years ago, when political principles were the guiding star of nearly every man who ran for office. But that was in the day when there was party responsibility. The shift from the delegate convention to the primary system has brought about the changed condition personality has taken the place of principle in far too many elections. The ambitious candidate, responsible not to his party, but to the minority of the voters who nominated him in a ae MEXICANS COMING IN Mexico is the only country that now averages about 50,000 immigrants to the United States each year. The number of Mexicans in Our Country was 78,000 in 1890 and about 600,000 in 1920. The Assistant Secretary of Labor recommends the European quota law be extended to Mexico. He will probably be opposed by the American beet sugar growers to whom Mexicans supply the only, cheap field labor available. Applying the quota system to Mexicans would deprive the border states and the sugar beet states of their supply of reliable Mexican farm labor. .. NO RIGHT TO STATEHOOD light primary, and that minority perhaps made up in part of the votRancor has become so hot between California and Arizona in ers of the opposition party, is in reality responsible to nothing but his own conscience, if any, or his own personal ambition. regard to the Boulder Canyon Dam bill that a California CongressThe temptation therefore to disregard party principles and to man threatens to propose Congressional action to withdraw Arizonas play to what he regards as the will of the organized minority which right to statehood. Seven states are interested in the Boulder Dam and the waters supports him, is often too great to be overcome. As a result of this, party lines become disorganized and constructive programs of party of the Colorado River, in addition to the federal government. The tangle that is developing as the result of local political government are made very difficult to accomplish. g And the citizen, politician or not, sits in the corner factions in each state seeking to gain advantages for themselves, and realizing what has happened but unable to do anything about it. And with another faction in Congress endeavoring to use the Boulder Dam until we greatly modify or get rid of our primary system entirely project as a means of putting the government into business, furnishes a perfect illustration of the confusion and bitterness which generally there will be little chance for improvement. results when an attempt is made to inject government into the field of INTELLIGENT ADVERTISING private enterprise. As is generally the case, development lags, the investor and inThe world marvels at the growth of the American telephone sysdustries are discouraged; and in the long run the taxpayer is loaded tem. Nothing has done more to put telephones in practically every with heavy financial burden as the result of politics being played at American home, than advertising. public expense. for need no Government owned telephone systems in Europe see EASY TO SPEND advertising. The taxpayer has to cover deficits, and there is no incentive for officials to maintain a growing telephone business and pay dividends to hundreds of thousands of stockholders. The manner in which taxes are mounting and the' staggering To show why the American system grows, it is only necessary burdens they are putting upon all the people should give concern to to read some of the advertising of local telephone companies. A good every individual who has any interest in the future of Our Counillustration is advertising appearing in Maryland newspapers dur- try. It seems to be easy to incur obligations and set into debt and ing a recent month. correspondingly difficult to curtail extravagance and get free from One advertisement appealed to the young person at school to our bond, warrant and interest burdens. While federal taxes have been reduced by hundreds of milring up the folks at home and keep up the personal contact. Another, pointed out the cheer that is brought to parents when their young lions since 1921, state and local taxes have risen twice as fast as people who have gone out in different walks of life, make a little federal taxes have been reduced. Local taxes of municipalities and phone visit instead of merely trusting to an occasional letter. Yet districts of one sort and another, which are organized on various) another, suggested that a young person away from home, when con- pretexts for the purpose of levying some new form of tax, are refronted by problems, gets comfort and help by ringing up the home sponsible for the orgy we are passing through. for advice. Every tax dollar comes from the pockets of the people. It does All the advertising had the human touch and appealed to every not grow on money trees. Every dollar wasted or spent unnecesmember of every family. The American telephone system grows and sarily is a dollar of capital destroyed. It has ceased earning, degives the best and the cheapest service in the world, largely as the veloping and producing. jg result of continuous and intelligent advertising. Business and property cannot forever endure this increasing drain, this steady confiscation of capital. y ' NOT SPORTSMEN ? A German scientist says that petroleum is still being formed in An organization of sportsmen in a Western state, has accepted the earth by nature. If this is true, in view of the present overproa list of 24 birds and beasts that its members, incited with tempting duction, the oil magnates ought to petition Mother Nature to adopt?-theight-hou- r prizes offered by a powder manufacturer, are going forth to slay. day. These birds and animals are outside the law, having no legal An American, according to the New York Times, has sent $4,750 protection, and the hunter is supposed to be pulling the trigger in a to England to help pay the British debt. Come on, cancellationists, good cause the creatures are called vermin and pests. vermin shoots of hawks, owls, bobcats, etc., are here is a chance to show. your generosity. These far-seein- so-call- ed |